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Forward Deployed Engineer
East Coast, United States · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in a highly technical engineering role, such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Resident Engineer, Systems Software Engineer, or Senior Systems Engineer.
About the job
Own technical success of strategic customer deployments by solving infrastructure challenges, writing code, and translating customer needs into product improvements.
What you'll do
- Collaborate with customers to optimize infrastructure, debug issues, and develop solutions for large workloads.
- Develop custom API endpoints, automation tools, and scripts; test builds and address code review feedback.
- Turn operational insights into technical requirements and advocate for customer needs in the product roadmap.
What they ask for
- Deep knowledge of distributed systems, high-performance file systems, storage protocols, and performance tuning.
- Strong understanding of high-throughput networking, including InfiniBand, RoCE, and 100GbE+ networking; advanced Linux systems knowledge.
- Proficiency in Python and C/C++, including reading, debugging, and contributing to complex codebases.
- Customer-facing collaboration, strong communication, analytical problem-solving, and ability to manage customer expectations.
Nice to have
- Experience operating large-scale AI training environments or HPC clusters.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
Tools
InfiniBand, RoCE, 100GbE+, Linux, Python, C/C++, Docker, Kubernetes
AI focus
Supports infrastructure for AI training and inference, including customer AI training environments and large-scale AI workloads.
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